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Friday, 7 November 2014

Welcome Guest Mona Pendleton and new winners

As always it’s an honour to welcome guests to AVJ and this week we have the lovely Mona Pendleton from Cupcake’s Creations visiting today. If you haven’t travelled to Mona’s blog before, please take a moment to hop over and you will find some beautiful projects and wonderful ideas that I am sure will get your creative juices going and get you itching to get your paper and inks out.

Over to you Mona.

Hi there crafty friends. I'm so honored and grateful to be here with you as a guest designer. My name is Mona Pendleton, I live in Phoenix, AZ with my family. I started crafting too long ago to remember exactly when! I enjoy creating with stamps, paints, inks, stencils, fabric and anything that allows me to be creative.

Today I have a tutorial and project to share for the Bountiful harvest themed challenge. I created a mixed media style canvas featuring an embossed, patina painted background along with a crackled pumpkin.

I had so much fun creating this Bountiful harvest themed canvas. I hope you enjoy the finished result and find the tutorial helpful. Thank you for traveling along with me here at A Vintage Journey and many thanks to the entire A Vintage Journey DT for the wonderful opportunity.

You are most welcome Mona and it’s been a real pleasure following your creative process and seeing such a beautiful canvas. It is full of wonderful texture and gorgeous colours, perfect for this time of year in the northern hemisphere.

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And now to the winners of our Halloween – To die For challenge hosted by our very own Anne.

All worthy winners I am sure you will agree, thank you to everyone who took part and to Anne for hosting.

You have one more week to enter our fabulous current challenge Bountiful Harvest. We have already had some wonderful entries, so please pop over to try your hand at winning a £10 vouvher from Country View Crafts or obtaining one of our Pinworthy badges.

We will see you again Monday with a wonderful project from our latest Guest Creative Guide.

What a great idea embossing then cutting the words out. I love how this turned out. Very pretty! Thanks soooo much for picking me. I'm so happy with how my Halloween Town turned out after thinking about it for over a year. Thanks everyone for the sweet comments <3

Amazing background on Mona's mixed media canvas! Love the entire work of art!

Congratulations, Nicole, on your well deserved win! Your project is a once in a life time piece of Halloween eye candy! Congratulations to Maggie and Shelly; I am honored and humbled to win a Pinworthy next to you!

What a fantastic tutorial from Mona! Always inspiring and wonderful results guaranteed every time. Thank you for sharing Mona. And huge congratulations to Nicole, Maggie, Shelly and Sara. All worthy winners/pinworthies. Jenny x